Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Chicka Chicka ABC Magnet Book

These are from past Kinderkorner messages - I do not know the author of each ideas. If the idea is yours please let me know so that I may give you credit.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Ideas

*old magnetic chalkboard...about 30 inches wide...and painted the
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree right onto it. I patterned a frame around the
chalkboard and my kids loved putting magnetic letters on the tree and off
the tree!!!
*boards that can be used with magnetic letters. I did it with cookie
sheets, bought CHEAP on sale(99 cents) then covered with contact paper cut
out to look like a coconut tree. Another thing I do is make coconut trees
using a child's arm and fingers. We paint the arm brown and press on paper,
then do the hand in green with fingers spread for the leaves. When dry, the
children stick on alphabet stickers and cut out and glue a portion of the
book to the bottom of the page. It becomes their first poem to take home and
read.
*palm tree on the side of my filing cabinet. A basket of magnetic letters sits on the floor next to it waiting for the kids to use it during center time.
*dryer tubing to be a chicka chicka boom boom tree. Just open the
tubing and spray with brown spray paint. I bought a cheap dark green vinyl
table cloth and cut the leaves out of it.
*As a project, we cut pieces of construction paper to make the trunk and
leaves (fringe them) of the tree for each child. The children then looked
through letters clipped from magazines to find the letters of their name
and glued them on the tree. Another teacher used letter stamps to do the
same thing (much easier because some letters are hard to find in magazines
and it is time consuming to have the children sort until they find their
letters.) Still another teacher had her children glue on Alphabits.

*Chicka Chicka trees. They cut out their own trunk and tree and glue to another piece of construction paper. I cut out the coconuts (various colored circles) ahead of time. The children then write the letters of the alphabet on the coconuts and glue around the tree. I did the activity towards the end of the year so it was easy for the children to write the letters on their own. They loved to read the letters
to you. Also, I have a Chicka Chicka tree in the room with velcro letters
the kids can use. It is a great year round center.

*cardboard roll from a carpet roll. Covered it with brown
paper, ripped it like the bark and made big paper leaves glued on a piece of
wire that stuck inside the top of the tube. Mine was in the hall. Then I
brought in my room and put ee words on the tree whenever they found one.
*Outside my room I am going to make a great big tree. I will be sending a
welcome to school postcard out in a few weeks. On the postcard I asked each
student to bring in a picture of themselves. I will put the
pictures on big leaves on the tree. The title going over the tree will read:
"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Look Who Is In Our Room".
*take a photo of each child hanging from the monkey bars on the playground. I
will add this photo to a palm tree we make for a class book.I will cut around
the child and glue it on the palm tree so it appears they are climbing the
tree. Our palm tree will have a water color sky, sponge paint blue and green
for the ocean, sand mixed with glue for the beach, torn grocery sack for the
trunk, torn green construction paper for the palm leaves, and brown pom poms
for the coconuts. I like to add borders to my class books covers and inside
pages. The children can use bingo dabbers and make a pattern around the edge
of the pages using 2 or 3 colors making the ab or abc pattern. I also have
thought of them using abc letter stamps with bright fluorescent orange, blue,
and hot pink stamp pads for a border or to add in the tree for their name.
Just thought of them using those bright fluorescent letter stamps I saw at
Wal-mart to add their name or initials to the tree. The book will probably
say "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom See Who is Hanging Around Our Room" or " Chicka
Chicka Boom Boom, Look Who Is In The Kindergarten Room".
*I have also made palm tree bags before. I bought from K-Mart pastel lunch
bags, pink, light blue and yellow. I added folded handles to the top using a
contrasting bright pink, yellow, orange construction pages folded and stapled
to the top. Then the children made palm trees using templates of trunk and
leaves at the art center and glued to one side. We added sticker letters to
the tree. Inside the bag the children stored sets of letters in upper case,
lower case and a set of initial sound pictures. I have used fluorescent index
cards for the matching cards. It was a great take-home project they could
keep to remember their unit.

*I give each child a paper lunch bag. I have them tear it in strips from the top to the middle. Then we twist each strip (we are making branches). Next we tear of the bottom flap and smooth it out, so the tree will stand up. Then each child with help if they need it, will write their names. We will cut out the letters and decorate their tree with the lettters in their names. I also use this idea with the
seasons. Each child has their own tree for each season. In fall they can
sponge paint differed color leaves or cut them out using construction
paper. In winter, they can tear pieces of cotton balls to represent snow.
In spring they can use q-tips to dab green paint on each branch to
represent the buds on a tree.

*palm tree shape and have each student pick a letter and name
something that went up the tree that starts with that letter. "_____ went
up the coconut tree to see ______."

*We just made our big Chicka Chicka art project yesterday. I tore light
brown paper to use as the tree trunk, and used green for the palm leaves, and
brown coconuts, plus a yellow moon. This went on big blue construction
paper. Bought AlphaBits cereal for the letters. They turned out cute!! If
it wasn't so close to the last day I would have kept them in school.

*A little variation I like to use on the art project you suggested is to have the children choose the letters they need to make their names on their own trees. It just gives me a little more information about where they are starting from....and, of course, they love to see their own names more than anything!

*Here are some links to Chicka sites:

http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/523.html

http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/619.html

http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/612.html

From Andrea on teachers.net

A - plastic ants
B - buttons
C - Cotton Balls
D - dots but with paint daubers or punched dots
E - Eggshells
F - Fruit Loops
G - Gift Wrap paper
H - Hearts
I - Insect stickers
J - Jelly Beans
K - Kisses (from a stamp pad)
L - Leaves
M - Maps (cut up old maps)
N - Names (autographs from classmates)
O - Oats
P - Post - It Notes
Q - Q-Tips
R - Ribbons
S - Shape stickers
T - Toothpicks
U - Umbrella stickers
V - Velcro (Free from velcro.com)
W - Wallpaper
X - XXOO confetti from Valentine's Day
Y - Yarn
Z - Zeros (Those things you put on punched holes to make them stronger)

LETTER WRITING (Tune: If you're happy and you know it)

If you want to write a letter, start at the top

If you want to write a letter start at the top

If you want to write a letter, then you better, better better

If you want to write a letter start at the top.

Kids pull down their arms as they sing lines.

Tune: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
This is the sound that A makes
a a a a a a
This is the sound A makes
a a a a a a

Old MacDonald had a farm...a-e-i-o-u !

Sing to Old MacDonald...but use vowels instead of eieio

Old MacDonald had a farm a-e-i-o-u
And on this farm he had an A..a-e-i-o-u
With an a a here and an a a there (short vowel ah sound)
Here an a There an a Everywhere an a a (ah ah)
Old MacDonald had a farm...a-e-i-o-u
And on this farm he had an e...a-e-i-o-u
With an e e here and an e e there (short vowel e...eh eh)
Here an e (eh) There an e (eh) Everywhere an e e (eh eh)
Old MacDonald had a farm a-e-i-o-u

Sung to "BINGO"
There are 5 letters in the alphabet,
And they're called the vowels.
A-E-I-O-U
A-E-I-O-U
A-E-I-O-U
And vowels are their name-o's.
They are so special they have 2 sounds,
One long one and one short one.
A-E-I-O-U
A-E-I-O-U
A-E-I-O-U
And vowels are their name-os.

The Vowel Song

great to use with the short vowel sounds but can be done
with the long one's too
(To the tune of Frere Jacque)

A says a a
E says e e
I says i, i says i
O says o o
U says u u
I know my vowels: A E I O U!

Here's another to the tune of "Where is Thumbkin?"
Where is Short A?

Where is short a?
Where is short a?
Here I am! Here I am!
I am in a hat rack . . .
...cracker jacks and fat cats,
a-a-a! a-a-a! (short a sound)

Short e:
I am in a red bed, jelly eggs and jet set.
Short i:
I am in a big rig, Silly Rick and pig wig.
Short o:
I am in a hot pot, rocky top and stop clock.
Short u:
I am in a dump truck, lucky duck and skunk bump.

Another!

A is for apple, b is for ball, c is for candy and d is
for doll. e is for elephant, f is for frog, g is for goose, and h is for
hog. I is for Indian, j is for jam, k is for kite, and l is for lamb. M is
for monkey, n is for nail, o is for owl, and p is for pail. Q is for queen,
r is for rose, s is for scissors, t is for toes. U is for umbrella, v is
for vase, w is for the wind blowing in your face. X is for xray, y is for
you, z is for the zebra in the zoo. We sing it to the regular abc song.

ABC Song sung to 99 Bottles of Pop on the Wall.

Check out Dr. Jean's website for her list of CD's and lyrics to her songs - she has many great alphabet and letter sound songs.